Recipe: Tasty Vegan Spanish Omelette/Tortilla

Vegan Spanish Omelette/Tortilla. Tortilla (or Spanish Omelette) has always been one of my favorite dishes, since I was a child. It's a typical Spanish recipe, probably one of the most famous in our country. We call it "tortilla de patatas" (potato omelette in English) and it's made of eggs, potatoes, olive oil and salt, and some people add onion too.

In my pre-vegan days, Spanish Tortilla was a favourite comfort food of mine, but I love this vegan version even more. At Veganuary we inspire and support people to try vegan for January and throughout the rest of the year. Visit our website and take the Veganuary challenge! You can cook Vegan Spanish Omelette/Tortilla using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Vegan Spanish Omelette/Tortilla

1. You need 1 of potato, finely cubed.
2. You need 6 tbsps of gram flour/besan.
3. You need 2 tbsps of plain flour.
4. You need 1/2 of green chilli, finely chopped.
5. You need Handful of finely chopped spinach (optional).
6. Prepare of To taste, salt.
7. You need 4 tbsps of oil.
8. It's 10 tbsps of water.

This vegan Spanish omelette (or tortilla) recipe makes the most wonderful breakfast, brunch, lunch or light dinner. Yes you can eat it at any time of the day! It looks beautiful, especially decorated with all your favourite toppings, and it's gluten free too. It has only a few ingredients (if you don't count all the extra toppings which are totally up to you), it's so good for you and packs up.

Vegan Spanish Omelette/Tortilla step by step

1. Heat oil in a small frying pan and add the potatoes. Let the potatoes cook on medium heat..
2. Meanwhile in a mixing bowl, put the gram flour, plain flour, green chillies, spinach and salt. Add water and mix well to form a batter..
3. When the potatoes are soft in the middle, add them to the batter and mix well..
4. Pour the batter into the frying pan (the same pan in which you cooked the potatoes, so you'd not need much oil) and cook it for 6 minutes on medium to slow heat..
5. Place a plate over the frying pan and flip it over and turn the tortilla around and cook the other side for 6 minutes. If required, keep turning it around till it's properly cooked. Take it off the frying pan and serve hot..

This is the recipe for our Vegan Spanish Potato Omelette - Vegan Tortilla de Patatas. Tortilla de patatas is a traditional and very special dish from Spain, the country where I am from. Squeaky Bean is launching a ready-to-eat Potato and Onion Tortilla - a first for UK supermarkets. The classic Spanish tortilla (tortilla española) is a Spanish omelet made with eggs, potatoes and sometimes onion, chives, and garlic. This potato tortilla is them fried in some oil and usually served cold as an appetizer.